Re: Address mapping PPC 405

[Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>]

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Grant Likely wrote:

| On 8/28/05, Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com> wrote:
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|>On 8/26/05, P. Sadik <psadik@gmail.com> wrote:
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|>Lovely. We don't do it that way on 405 but we could - since the MMU is
|>heavy soft assisted we could do that - we actually have everything run
|>through the MMU once we've done initial MMU setup, but we do have the
|>ability to mark ranges of addresses for IO and have the concept of TLB
|>pinning to lock ranges of kernel addresses in large translated (BAT
|>like for bigger PPC users) regions using just a few TLB slots. There
|>is also a ZPR (zone protection register), but that's mostly used to
|>fake the usual USER/KERNEL page distinction.

| I believe TLB pinning was removed in 2.6 in favor of large TLB entries
| for kernel space.  Matt Porter pointed this out to me about a week
| ago.  This will not matter of course if you're not using 2.6.

Maybe so. I'm thinking this is likely on 2.4  but I'd be interested to
know what you mean - this isn't hugetlb (that's different), and TLB
pinning on 2.4 means you only use a couple of (large) entries anyway. I
can go read the source I suppose :-)

| Matt, is there any documentation covering the new design in the kernel
tree?

Hmmm...doc-u-what? :P

Jon.
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